Essays on Art in Architecture

Explaining the geographical and temporal patterns of the ancient monuments has always remained a challenge for the archaeologists and historians. Despite a plethora of researches on this subject, there are conjectures as to what and how exactly led to the formation of such monuments. This…

A “vacation home” requires many different things. It has to feel like home and represent you as a person. It needs to match the area it is surrounded by. It should make you feel comfortable and happy and needs to be livable. A “vacation home”…

In Chapter 7, Korydon Smith features three authors to define the relations between the human body and existing buildings. These authors are Vitruvius, Le Corbusier, and Lance Hosey. In the chapter, Vitruvius focuses on the proportional relationships among the parts of a human body. For…

Garden design and everything related to a landscape architecture is nothing new. The history of the art of creating gardens goes back to antiquity. Landscape architecture has evolved over the years. However, both in the past and today, a well designed garden, was a symbol…

Islamic art and architecture, truly the Mirror of the Invisible world, is a label designated to the creative productions-both religious and secular-born in lands inhabited and ruled by Islamic populations. Spanning over 1400 years and diverse lands, the creators and patrons were both Muslim and…

Background The background and the context of this research involve tracing back the connections between nature and architecture. These connections caused the concepts of nature in architecture and architecture within nature to be born. The boundaries between nature and architecture are porous. Aims This idea…

Each location has its very own distinctive characteristics. Romans interpreted “genius loci” as a spirit of a place space. It uses “locations as distinctive atmosphere” . Phenomenology was a significant development in Philosophy worked upon broadly by Edmund Husserl in the 19th century. Phenomenology as…

Abstract Day by day the population of Bangladesh is increasing and it’s getting more tougher and tougher for government to reach the door to door of the people. When any of the facilities has provided for the people of the state, the most of the…

The “Dance of Tears” monument has been placed in the courtyard behind the McDonald Library in late 1998 or early 1999. The statue was created by Barbara Trauth who had created many other meaningful statues prior to the Dance of Tears. The design of the…

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The intent of this dissertation is to explore how architecture can create therapeutic environment and improve healing process. Human body follows and allows the process of ‘self-healing’ when provided with positive therapeutic environment. Currently the majority of human population living in cities live in densely…

Russian Suprematism: Is an art movement which focuses more on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines and rectangles and they use limited colours on their paints. De Stijl: This was a Dutch movement also known as Neoplasticism founded in Leiden. Photomontage: Is the…

Modernism has always had a major impact on the development of Architecture in all past, present and future periods. “Modernism” essentially emerged within architecture during the 1920s due to industrialisation and social changes after many drastic changes around the world. As a response to these…

Technology has influenced culture in general and it has thus changed art and architecture along the way. Before the discovery of photographic art, to record a scene or a portrait one would have had to hire an artist. This was only affordable by the wealthy…

Introduction Duomo di Milano known as Milan Cathedral, is the world’s second largest Catholic Cathedral in the world. It is dedicated to Santa Maria Nascente. This building is one of the most famous attraction in Italy. The specialty about this cathedral is its beauty and…